Anthya Cohen
Anthya Cohen, also known as Anthya Rael is an international pianist and artist. She left South Africa to study in post-war London, discovering a new life full of music, colour and success as a concert pianist.
Julia Boyd
Julia Boyd is the author of A Dance with the Dragon: The Vanished World of Peking’s Foreign Colony; The Excellent Doctor Blackwell: The Life of the First Woman Physician; and Hannah Riddell: An Englishwoman in Japan. Previously a trustee of the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust, she now lives in London.
Paul Boorstin
Paul Boorstin is an award-winning documentary film-maker and screenwriter. He is also a blogger for the Huffington Post and a contributor to the Los Angeles Times.
Martin Bell
Martin Bell, OBE is a British UNICEF Ambassador, a former broadcast war reporter and a former independent MP.
Jamie Bartlett
Jamie Bartlett is one of the UK’s leading technology writers and thinkers.
Elisabeth Åsbrink
Elisabeth Åsbrink is a Swedish writer and journalist. Her work deals with memory and oblivion and often focuses on the aftermath of The Second World War.
Claire Armitstead
Claire Armitstead is a British journalist and author
Richard Hurowitz
Richard Hurowitz is a writer and the publisher of the Octavian Report. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Boston Globe, The Times, the Los Angeles Times, TIME, History Today, and the Jerusalem Post. He is a graduate of Yale University, where he studied history, and of Columbia Law School. Image © Donna Newman
Vivi Lachs
Vivi Lachs is a historian, teacher, author, translator and Yiddish pop singer. She co-hosts the Cockney Yiddish Podcast, runs the Great Yiddish Parade, and sings with the bands Klezmer Klub and Katsha’nes. She is the author of Whitechapel Noise, London Yiddishtown and East End Jews.
Zachary Leader
Zachary Leader is Emeritus Professor of English Literature at the University of Roehampton in London and author of The Life of Kingsley Amis and the two-volume Life of Saul Bellow, alongside multiple works of criticism and scholarship. He is General Editor of The Oxford History of Life-Writing and Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
Volker Weidermann
Volker Weidermann, an award-winning writer and literary critic, is the cultural editor of Der Spiegel.
Gavin Higgins
Gavin Higgins is an award winning composer who has worked with some of the country’s leading orchestras, including the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the London Philharmonic.